It totally is sidelining. And he does his share of pedestaling as well.
And yet, the amount of respect and humanity he gives to his women outstrips so many male writers since, whihc sadly isn't saying much. All I"m hoping for is inoffensiveness and some agency, not feminist depictions.
I'm still reading through the HoME and he continues to exceed my expectations on depictions of women. I think he was a good observer of people and observed a good share of women at Oxford and more as he came in contact with fan artists, and he had a daughter. Many men make their most feminist transformations after having daughters, and the parts of the HoME I'm reading now are from his later years. I can't call him feminist, but I think he may have gotten better on filling out his women characters in his later writings.
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Date: 2014-05-04 01:15 am (UTC)And yet, the amount of respect and humanity he gives to his women outstrips so many male writers since, whihc sadly isn't saying much. All I"m hoping for is inoffensiveness and some agency, not feminist depictions.
I'm still reading through the HoME and he continues to exceed my expectations on depictions of women. I think he was a good observer of people and observed a good share of women at Oxford and more as he came in contact with fan artists, and he had a daughter. Many men make their most feminist transformations after having daughters, and the parts of the HoME I'm reading now are from his later years. I can't call him feminist, but I think he may have gotten better on filling out his women characters in his later writings.